Why does everyone assume these days that integration is such a good thing, asks Giles Fraser in The Guardian. Louise Casey’s “community report”, published last week, simply took it for granted that it’s inherently unhealthy for communities to keep themselves to themselves. But why shouldn’t they preserve their distinct character? It’s precisely that which makes …
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Let us have a discussion about what is “political”! Below is a short piece about inequality in the United States, and how the Oregon government is going to tax companies with “extreme CEO-worker pay gaps”. To the furious CEOs and committed libertarian capitalists I’m sure this is purely (party) political, to be overturned at the …
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There’s no such thing as any season of goodwill when it comes to political debate on social media. It’s all about fury and outrage. Even when tweets are funny, you can taste the “anger inside the sugar coating of smug satire”. Rage is contagious – it spreads like an infection across online forums, which have …
Experts in child-rearing believe we have a lot of it wrong these days. They think parents are too invested in their children’s minute to minute happiness. They are too protective, too eager for their children to be proved academically outstanding, too reluctant to accept the kids are not all going to excel equally, indeed, far …
Questions are swirling about the British government’s apparently lax oversight of its major outsourcing contractor Carillion before it collapsed last week, leaving thousands of British private-sector workers unpaid. Up to 30,000 small firms are thought to be owed money by the sprawling company. It has emerged that in the three months leading up to its …
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